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In many practical applications, we encounter ellipsoid constraints, ellipsoid-shaped clusters, etc. A usual justification for this ellipsoid shape comes from the fact that many real-life quantities are normally distributed, and for a multi-variate normal distribution, a natural confidence set (containing the vast majority of the objects) is an ellipsoid. However, ellipsoids appear more frequently than normal distributions (which occur in about half of the cases). In this paper, we provide a new justification for ellipsoids based on a known mathematical result – Dvoretzky’s Theorem.
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Villaverde, K., Kosheleva, O., Ceberio, M. (2014). Why Ellipsoid Constraints, Ellipsoid Clusters, and Riemannian Space-Time: Dvoretzky’s Theorem Revisited. In: Ceberio, M., Kreinovich, V. (eds) Constraint Programming and Decision Making. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 539. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04280-0_22
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